In the framework of the state agreement of 1949, the EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg is a public law company under international law domiciled in France. It is the only completely bi-national airport in the world. Situated entirely on French territory, the airport has a Swiss customs sector connected to Basel via a customs road.
The Board of Directors is composed of eight French members, eight Swiss members and two German representatives in an advisory capacity. The President of the Board of Directors and the Managing Director are always of different nationalities. The Director and the Deputy Director - who also represents French civil aviation as Airport Commander - are of different nationalities, too. The French and Swiss Ministries of Transport serve as supervisory authorities, while the French Civil Aviation General Management (Direction Générale de l'Aviation Civile, DGAC) is responsible for watching over the safety of our air space.

The population of the tri-national region spanning Alsace, North-West Switzerland and South Baden considers the airport, which has the designating brand name "EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg", as their "home" airport. About 38% of local passengers come from France, as many from Switzerland, and 24% from Germany.
The airport serves as a model of cross-border collaboration in two capacities: the stability of the collaboration and the ability to adapt to democratic processes and political change. The EuroAirport forms a bridge between the economic area of the Euro - to which France and Germany belong - and other countries, such as the Swiss Confederation. The airport is, in fact, visited now and then by delegations from the Middle East and Eastern European countries wishing to obtain information about improving human and economic relations in their own border regions.

n 1998, the EuroAirport welcomed more than 3 million passengers and in the following year the figure had already grown to 3.6 million. Four million passengers a year is no longer a distant vision for the future. Half the passengers fly to our many European city destinations or profit from connections to large intercontinental hubs. Fewer than a quarter of passengers fly to Paris and a further quarter use the platform for holiday flights. The future of the EuroAirport does not, therefore, depend on one single or only a few individual destinations.